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A Summer Break

I once read, in a textbook for some course in a Gen Ed requirement, that the nicotine addiction functions differently than many drugs/ stimulants/ addictions. For most stimulants, folks who partake experience a form of “high” that they always, always yearn to reach again. The book (and, obviously, this is only one professional opinion, andContinueContinue reading “A Summer Break”

Life update: play now cast

Here’s the beautiful thing about summer: every day is like a million days in one. And the sunlight gives me energy to go and go and go, and so I do a million things, barely stopping to eat sometimes. (Other times I eat a lot, though). I feel like I haven’t updated in a millionContinueContinue reading “Life update: play now cast”

There is going to be a play

My mom said, just now, “Good night.” And I said, “I’m going to bed, too, just after I write something.” And she sighed and said, “Don’t burn yourself out.” And that’s kind of a goal of mine, too, even though I also want to do EVERYTHING EVER. There’s a million thangs I’ve haven’t done…but justContinueContinue reading “There is going to be a play”

Pictured Rocks. The highlight reel

This girl gave me a booklet for Christmas that she made with all kinds of drawings of the adventures we have had. And it was titled, “Do You Want to Build a Snowman?” And inside were two tickets for a kayaking excursion in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula’s Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. She knows me well. AndContinueContinue reading “Pictured Rocks. The highlight reel”

The Weakest Victim that Night

The Stanford case, about a woman who was raped, has been on my mind. Obviously, adult themes. Obviously, tread with caution. Have you ever taken a self-defense class? I have. I’ve taken a few, a few classes dedicated, especially, to young women like me. We’re young women like the ones you know, from college orContinueContinue reading “The Weakest Victim that Night”

God still answers prayers, friends.

Years ago, I was dating a super awesome guy (who has since married a really sweet woman). I remember calling him, one day after work, after I had just started working in the city. I told him that I somehow, somehow felt called to Detroit. But, I didn’t know how. I remember telling him thatContinueContinue reading “God still answers prayers, friends.”

On flying and time zones and dark nights of the soul

When flying through the air–miraculously–in a chunk of engineered metal, It strikes one that, although we will be in flight for two and a half hours, Still we will arrive only one hour later. Such is the way the world tilts and The speed of the plane and The angle of the sun. What, then,ContinueContinue reading “On flying and time zones and dark nights of the soul”

SO MANY THINGS

Crazy things are happening. Crazy and unexpected and hopefully (dear God, hopefully, please please please) very good. Hopefully. I want to tell you all about them. But, before that, listen. I went to Colorado. My life, which has been a positive whirlwind these past two weeks, has been on this ramping up-and-up which maybe (maybe?)ContinueContinue reading “SO MANY THINGS”

Cliche saying about family/ memories

It was my mother’s birthday a few weeks ago. We had ice cream and deep dish pizza (her favorite). This past Mother’s Day, she remarked as we drove to church, that her mother (my grandmother, Cecelia or, as I knew her, “Grandma D”) would sometimes remember the day my mother was released from the hospital.ContinueContinue reading “*Cliche saying about family/ memories*”

No makeup Sunday

I usually wear mascara, every day. On special occasions I line my eyelid, too, Pulling the lid taut with my finger, Drawing across my lashes. Today, though, preparing for church, I didn’t. I left the dark mascara in its neon bottle, The liner I left on the shelf, And I went to church un-decorated, MyContinueContinue reading “No makeup Sunday”